 | Gail Marshall - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 268 pages
...throwing a child from her when confronted by her enemies, as Lady Macbeth suggests she could have done: 'I would, while it was smiling in my face, / Have...from his boneless gums, / And dash'd the brains out' (Macbeth, 1.7.56-58). Lest Lucy's desirability destroy her adorers, she must herself be destroyed,... | |
 | Clare Constant, Susan Duberley - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1999 - 102 pages
...yet you would make both. They have made themselves, and that their fitness now Does unmake you. [" I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love...me I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums, And dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done... | |
 | Ronald Hayman - Education - 1999 - 116 pages
...act. Questions like "How many children had Lady Macbeth?" never bother us in the theater. She says: I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love...me— I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums, And dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done... | |
 | Lawrence Venuti - Foreign Language Study - 2000 - 542 pages
...Garneau, "AG, aile gauche," in 1974. 57 Shakespeare, 1978, 41. The original text is as follows: "I have given suck, and know / How tender 'tis to love...babe that milks me. / I would, while it was smiling at my face, / Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums / And dashed the brains out, had I sworn... | |
 | Susannah York, William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 124 pages
...and yet you would make both: They have made themselves, and that their fitness now Does unmake you. I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love...from his boneless gums And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this. - If we should fail, we fail! But screw your courage to the sticking... | |
 | Margreta de Grazia, Stanley Wells - Drama - 2001 - 352 pages
...it, then you were a man; And to be more than what you were, you would Be so much more the man. ... I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love...me. I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums And dashed the brains out, had I so sworn As you have done... | |
 | Orson Welles - Drama - 2001 - 342 pages
...Welles on Shakespeare LADY MACBETH What beast was't then, That made you break this enterprise to me? I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love...me: I would, while it was smiling in my face. Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums, And dashed the brains outs, had I so sworn as you Have done... | |
 | Peter Quennell, Hamish Johnson - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 246 pages
...speeches that Shakespeare puts into her mouth, during her earlier marriage she had borne a son : ... I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love...milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face, Macbeth, Lady Malcolm Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had... | |
 | George Wilson Knight - Drama - 2002 - 396 pages
...contrast our two visions neatly with reference to the life-image of babyhood. Lady Macbeth speaks: I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love...his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this. (Macbeth, i. vii. 54) Compare : Peace, peace ! Dost thou not see... | |
 | Mary Ann McGrail - Drama - 2002 - 200 pages
...that "Nature" which impedes her ruthlessness. Lady Macbeth concludes with the boastful challenge I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love...his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn As you have done to this. (54-58) I say that this challenge is boastful because Lady Macbeth... | |
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I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me : I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this. 
